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Satellite Smashed Into 500 Pieces of Debris

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0:00 it's already a net mag a net what could suck up aluminum cuz magnets work on steel and iron type stuff exactly also these things are moving like thousands of miles an hour type well if you not if you're out there at the same speed yes exactly he don't know space he don't know space he don't know space I'm the smartest yeah I just imagine you being a professor in a school you're like exactly thank you he don't know space you don't know space all right hey do you like space I do like space are you like a space nerd uh I I appreciate I appreciate space I would say nerd though I don't know lot anybody here ever heard of the Kesler syndrome ah yes the kler syndrome yes it's a space thing is a space

0:51 sickness from astronauts okay when's eye grows slightly higher on your face yeah cuz you're you're looking at the stars and then it it's just one is down on Earth and the other one just keeps telescoping stars on Earth no one one keeps your eye on Earth and then the other one keeps looking at the stars like a telescope is it is it when the planets are going around the Sun and then when two of them are next to each other and then now they look like titties no that one's the Pamela syndrome no I don't know that's the Pamela Anderson syndrome oh the Pamela syndrome the Pamela syndrome those are the Fons from cyberon okay one where okay here we go joking I didn't know have you just want to steamroll him what are you a astronaut thought of by NASA scientists Donald Kesler and Burton core P back in 1970s the castler syndrome predicts that

1:42 if Humanity keeps up with how much is sending into space we're going to get in trouble as it gets more and more crowded around Earth with the chances of a collision massively increased so you guys see the movie Gravity H yeah yeah you remember they're trying to like fix the thing and then suddenly that debris field comes around well it's a huge problem because because there's a ton of space debris out there and so it just constantly floating around and every single time something else goes on or rocket gets let go of or something happens the the higher the chances continue to happen but we keep on sending sending these crazy things out there more satellites more this more man whatever more debris happens right now apocalypse is a very terrifying terrifying version of outcome for Humanity because we also have specific satellites out there that control uh weather prediction if we lose all

2:34 capability of weather prediction uh cellular phone contact internet services Starling all of our satellite stuff if that gos dark then we get thrown into a very like prehistoric version of not Humanity not if we don't know weather that's true we just go yeah but then we'll also run into a bunch of things like what happens when weather prediction is uh predicting weather for like you know uh planes or or cargo ships or different things there's no access to it they just got to have backups on standby so then when it goes out they just shoot the other one yeah Su dials that's the thing though the second the second debris crashes into something it creates more debris that is now in orbit and there's no way to stop that lot of space trash yeah well I I think you should go up there with a space rocket that has a big net and then the big space net catches all of it that

3:24 ████ is flying at like what does it do with it after it catches it you take it back down throw it out and further out yeah so break the gravity and orbit of Earth with a giant net of a ████ ton of debris let me space you a little bit all right you get space this is Earth ooh everything's about to get Space getting space this is Earth okay I'm spaced out already the rocket comes out right and then go like this and then a casset starts collecting collecting collecting and then um NASA I I don't believe them anymore so I'm going to say SpaceX they go all right we col Ed enough trash go to the go to the sun bro yeah send it to the Sun burn it it's too far [Music] no well we could take it back down so this no the kler syndrome was thought up

4:16 in the 1970s right because the idea that we keep sending more more problems might haveen well satellite has just been smashed into 500 pieces oh in a sign that shows that the Kesler syndrome is a real thing they needed collect trash that means more debris has now just entered circulation and orbit around we have to take a bag down what did it crash into that caused it to go into 500 Pieces Just other pieces of debris from like previous like space exploration and ████ like that probably have thousands of pieces up there yeah yeah so then we're going to get um some of the Union guys from UTI you know all the trash companies right and we're going to make space garbage trucks community service guys mhm house arrest guys all of the jail all the

5:06 convicts grab the stuff guys yeah come on all the jail convicts we're going to send them up they're trying to catch everything they're going to just be in orange jumpsuits with the head and then the little stick and then just picking it up poking at satellites yep all the Space Geeks are going to be like how come they get to go up there I was trying to pay 200 G's to go up there so track this week the space debris came from a now defunct intelsat 33e satellite made by Boeing Space Systems and used by Intel for mobile phone coverage in Europe Africa and Asia with a lifespan of roughly 15 years when it first launched in 2016 its time servicing Humanity came to an abrupt end on October 19th when us space command reported that Intel sat 33 had broken up into roughly 20 pieces through American space Tracking Company exoanalytic Solutions it's been confirmed that the

5:57 satellite has been smashed up into around 500 pieces of what is now just more space junk flying around in high spe I I know what to do damn I know what to do scary we're going to launch wait hold on Anthony's about to get spaced again y get are you are you ready to get spaced out I got spaced out the last time you talk you're going to get a you're going to get a big maget okay manget EIG you going get a massive magnet launch that ████ up there then you don't need a net because the magnet already just it's already a net mag net you just go I just got spaced out right now dude magnet face dude magnet you go out there and that ████ suck up all of

6:47 it it's like throwing it in the sand and you ████ shake and all the metal pieces get attracted to that some of them are plastic no well we at least we'll handle the magnet the the metal first all right that's for the regular net you get a MAG onet regular it okay maybe all right maybe it's like a missile like this and in the front is a magnet and in the back it got a net WoW so it it goes like this and it's a magnet and then all of the metal Parts get collected here and then all dude I should have been an engineer but how is that working the back of the net how is it suck how's it it's like this right and it's like a sail so then so it can only be like around here to get caught and it gets caught back here no but what if like the magnet up front is

7:38 collecting too many things and the now it's blocking the blocking the debris from going into the net there could be a bunch of trash no it's going to be it's just going to be connected here and as this it's like a sail it's like a parale no he's saying this right sponsored by Boba no right so if this is the earth down here this is the magnet and then this is the net so when the metal comes here it goes yeah exactly but then the non-metal goes right into the net boba time yep no j j sponsored by jie yep Y no damn dude the B is sick when it's filled up it goes to the sun getting spaced out with boba time easy dude Elon can do it what

8:29 happens if the Sun gets a sunf flare because of all that crap going into it wear sunglasses dude oh damn Ray bands baby Actually I don't even know if magnets or would work cuz aren't satellites made that like aircraft aluminum or something yeah have to all right deep cut only on the net what stop what what could suck up aluminum cuz magnets work on steel and iron type stuff exactly also these things are moving like thousands of miles an hour type ████ well if you not if you're out there at the same speed exactly he don't know space he don't know space he don't know space I'm the smartest that's what I was going to say so even if that magnet's going but it's still space aluminum and it doesn't pick up those Metals no if you're running at the same speed it's not that fast exactly but the magnets still don't pick up those medals

9:20 yeah I just imagine you being a professor in a school you're like exactly thank you he don't know space he don't know space you don't know ████ that's what you took in my class me to T thank you Jason you don't know space Jason is a space guy space ficado he knows space he knows space he don't he don't know space is such a funny claim that food don't know no space hey this is a magnet all right what is it going to collect what is it collect this like go to the air wow then if it's made out of this guy then it's sorry well they should stop you don't know space either you don't know space I don't know metal I don't know metal okay I don't know metal but I know space

10:10 we all know space you don't know space it's good teamwork thank you for watching the Boba time science hour

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